Writers and poets among INPS employees, the awards at the Turin Book Fair

The prizes of the sixth edition of the Andrea Ferraro national literary competition for fiction, poetry and comics announced by INPS have been assigned

TURIN – Not only social security experts but also mystery writers, novelists, historians, cartoonists and poets. They are the INPS employees who participated in the sixth edition of the Andrea Ferraro national literary competition for fiction, poetry and comics, announced again this year by the Institute. There were around seventy participants, seven people who were awarded this afternoon, inside the Inps-Inail stand set up at the Turin International Book Fair. “The objective of the award – explains the Institution – is to highlight and enhance the editorial talents hidden among the Institute’s employees”.

In these six years the prize has evolved: there are more participants and higher-level books and there is also a greater awareness of the Institute regarding the importance of this event which tends to encourage the cementing of a community – explained Diego De Felice, central director of INPS communications – In addition to being a social security and welfare institution, we are also an institution that tends to enhance its people, the artistic heritage and its contribution to civil society“.

The recipients of the award were: Gabriella Guidi with the novel ‘Una vita maledetta’; Riccardo Puccini with ‘The world after me’; Silverio Scognamiglio with ‘Story of my name’; Mariangela Borrone with the text ‘Curfew’ for the poetry section; ‘Le parlòe del vino’ by Vincenzo Fragomeni for the unpublished works section. Two special mentions: Barbara Dal Ferro with ‘Quarantanove. A milestone, a turning point’, for the published works section and to Federica Birocchi with ‘Course of crime fiction… With crime’, for the unpublished works section.

The literary competition, for two years, has been named in memory of Andrea Ferraro, a young INPS employee who died prematurely. Last year, Ferraro was awarded a special mention, in memory of the talent and personal and professional energy expressed with passion and humanity. Ferraro was a great reader and a passionate writer who, shortly before his death, had finished writing a fantasy novel, the first of an unfinished trilogy. The text was found on his computer by his mother, Antonella Giordano, and this year it was published posthumously by Agra, in the Zines series, with the title ‘The lineage of the gods’. The book was presented this afternoon on the occasion of the awards ceremony of the INPS competition, amid the touching words of the mother and the emotion of those present. The message launched by the publisher is clear: life continues with a book.